Speaking of Shotaro Ishimori, I believe many people will think of “Kamen Rider” or “Sentai”. In fact, Shotaro Ishimori has also drawn many comics! Even though Mr. Shotaro Ishimori passed away in 1998, because the new generation of Kamen Rider has been broadcast since 2000, it will be written ~ Original: Shotaro Ishimori. Even the new generation knows that he is the original author of “Kamen Rider”.
But… that teacher Shotaro Ishimori actually painted “ZELDA”. This is as shocking as knowing that Kenyu Ishikawa, the original artist of GETTER ROBO, painted “Ultraman Taro” and “Legend of the Hungry Wolf”!
This Zelda comic was originally serialized in the American game magazine “NINTENDO POWER” and was later published as a Japanese translation. (Published on March 1, 1993)
Ishimori’s version of “The Legend of Zelda” is based on the game “The Legend of Zelda: Triforce of the Gods”. The first few pages of the appendix of the Shogakukan guide back then. Since the American magazine is serialized in full color, the Japanese version is also in full color.
In an era when there were no detailed plots, how did Mr. Ishimori expand the story? If you want to read it… you can actually find it in Chinese version…
Shotaro Ishimori passed away on January 28, 1998. To add to the report of that year:
Popular Japanese cartoonist Shotaro Ishinomori (いしのもり・しょうたろう, real name: Shotaro Onodera), famous for his works such as “Cyborg 009” and “Kamen Rider”, passed away at 2:33 a.m. on January 28 due to heart failure caused by lymphoma in a hospital in Tokyo. The news was announced on the 30th It was reported that he died at the age of 60. This great master who created countless great heroes who punished evil and promoted good, and brought dreams to children, fell ill due to illness before he could fulfill his wish to complete “Cyborg 009”. On the same day, a private burial was held only by family members, and the body was cremated at the Yotsugi Crematorium in Katsushika Ward, Tokyo. His residence is located at Sakuradai 6-28-4, Nerima-ku, Tokyo. According to the deceased’s wishes, neither the funeral nor the farewell ceremony will be held, and a “memorial service” is expected to be held after March.
Mr. Ishinomori passed away with the idea of the final chapter of “Cyborg 009” in mind. He didn’t even tell his 10 assistants, but he was still thinking about the story on his hospital bed and told the idea to his eldest son, actor Onodera Joe (32 years old). It was the “Angel Chapter” set in 2012, where gods and Cyborg warriors fought. Mr. Ishinomori’s body was cremated at Yotsugi Crematorium in Tokyo after 4 pm that day. Onodera put the “Kamen Rider” puppet, his letters to his father, his favorite pen and manuscript paper into the coffin, hoping that his father in heaven would continue to create a sequel.
Mr. Ishinomori suffered from malignant lymphoma in April 1992 (Heisei 4) and did not undergo surgery, but administered chemotherapy through a drip. However the condition worsened last September and hospitalization began. Although unable to paint in the hospital, he still lay in bed conceiving “Hotel” in the biweekly “Big Comic” serialization and giving instructions to his assistants. However, in late November last year his condition worsened again and he was hospitalized again. He often endured the pain and said, “Artificial Man 009 is not over yet. I want to live another 10 years and paint it to the end.”
He had few of the common side effects of chemotherapy and wasn’t in much pain. The family kept the disease secret, but “it seems that he himself realized that it was an incurable disease” (Onodera Joyan). After crossing the New Year, he almost lost his voice. On his birthday on the 25th, he ushered in his 60th year. Wearing a red shroud given by his family, he still clearly said “I’m fine” on the hospital bed. This sentence became the last words left to his family.
At 2:33 in the morning on the 28th, accompanied by his wife Toshiko, eldest son husband, and second son Akira (29 years old), he quietly breathed his last breath. On weekdays, he often said, “I hope it can be handled quietly after I leave.” In order to comply with his last wish, the news of his death was not disclosed to the outside world except for his family and 10 assistants. The Tokyo Funeral Festival in Edogawa, Tokyo will hold a vigil at 8 pm on the 29th and a farewell ceremony at 1 pm on the 30th.
After the cremation and the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, the eldest son held a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo and bowed to apologize: “I should have told everyone immediately, but due to my father’s last wish, I am really sorry.” According to relevant sources, “Hotel”, which is still being serialized, still has about three original stories left by Ishinomori-sensei. It is expected that assistants will continue to draw it until February, and it will be suspended after March.
The remains of Mr. Ishinomori are scheduled to be buried at Shounji Temple in Ikebukuro, Tokyo around the time the serialization of the “posthumous work” “Hotel” ends.
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